Snow & Birches#2

My first impression was that there's almost too many of the snow covered branches.  It becomes more of a white picture with a few dark patches, than a picture of snow covered branches.  But it's tough to prune them

I would tend to agree with Pete take on it, there is a whole lot going on here, making it tough to wrap my mind around it.

Hmm, I don't have the same problem the others have, I really enjoy the chaotic and abstract nature of this. I would crop out the trunk in the llc though.

Albert,

I'm with Roel.  To me, this is a perfect example of making "order out of chaos."  I seek out and look for stuff like this.  I'm sure I've mentioned before, but great job of filling the entire frame; no reference to ground or sky.  By filling the frame like this you're making the image all about the chaos, yet containing it.  I think the 3 main trunks do give this enough structure to hold this together.

The sharpness and details are excellent! A great choice going with f/16.  Not sure why you shoot this with a wide aperture anyway; there's no single plane of focus that you could isolate with a wider aperture.  This came out terrific!

Lon

This is an order out of chaos scene that might be a gateway to some interesting photo art.

Albert, easy enough to make out what the scene is, but I would treat my thoughts about it from an abstract POV. I kind of like the tightly woven look with a lot of crisscrossing going on. A neat find.....

Albert,
Nice capture. Has a really fine abstract quality. I fall on the side that the three prominent trunks make order out of the chaos and hold the comp. together.

This works beautifully for me, Albert. Those three birch trunks hold everything together for me and bring some organization to the chaos of the scene and I love the details in the large version. My only suggestion; and this is just a personal preference; would be to clone or crop out that tree trunk in the LLC. Great job on this.

Ed

Looks good, Albert.  I like the overwhelming tangle of snow covered branches and think that the trunks are very well placed and add just enough structure to keep this interesting.  This style of image is hard to do and you're doing very well.

Love the complexity but simplicity here.